FILMS
documentary
How to talk
to Lydia?
The film shows nature-loving people from Eastern Europe picking goods in high-tech German warehouses. Emotionally charged relationships develop between the workers and Lydia, the smart communication device.
funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
documentary – in development
Ilyess on the fields of gold
funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
documentary
Magic Mountain
After Mariam reveals her secret, she travels to Abastumani, where people go to disappear with their own secrets. One day the building itself disappears, the people vanish and all the secrets are scattered to the wind.
(Hans Gralke supported as an associate producer)
documentary – in development
Dear Mother Hayastan
funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
short feature film
YAEL
After her miscarriage and the separation of her fiancé, young YAEL tries to find a way back into the world, to restart her life and to reactivate her senses. But she’s not yet ready, physically and emotionally.
The World
as a Phantom
“The world as a phantom” tracks down the phantoms of technization. The scenes are haunted by them or only suggest their absence. An uncanny feeling remains, since they are almost visible in their invisibility.
Language Lost
Due to an illness artist Samira, student Tim, manager Roland and doctor’s assistant Petra have lost their ability to speak, but not their intelligence and their feelings. Faced with social exclusion, they train hard to relearn their lost language.
documentary – in production
Bailarina
Flamenco dancer Maria stages a dance theater about answering the question that is personally vital to her and to which she has no answer: “What will remain of me when I’m gone?”
Israel and Sara
Isaac, aged and broken, is visited by the granddaughter
of his recently deceased “eternal” childhood girlfriend Esther.
At the end of a life lived
that should have been another one.
Premiere at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, one of the oldest and most prestigious theatre festivals in Europe.
Shards
The eight minutes of the silent day
of the mother and her child
in the new apartment after the divorce,
told in one take.
